Word: mergers
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...After buying a big stake and standing by for a few years, he launched a hostile takeover bid with Lee Iacocca in '95, finagled board representation and, most recently, wound up in a federal court in Delaware, arguing that he had been duped by management into supporting Chrysler's merger with DaimlerBenz (a case he lost last month; his lawyers are appealing...
...Kumin says that she and her Radcliffe classmates still harbor some hard feelings toward the University that—in her words—“swallowed” their alma mater in a 1971 quasi-merger. “We feel quite bitter about it,” she says...
...this year, more than triple the euro-zone average. Many Russians are still poor and live in wretched conditions, but on the whole, household income is up and, especially in big cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg, people are ready to splurge. The spending boom is creating a merger wave in sectors as varied as banking, brewing and confectionery. In just the past month, alongside the Dixons deal, the huge Belgian beer company InBev has been finalizing the last pieces of a $730 million acquisition of Russian beer giant Sun Interbrew, and Coca-Cola agreed to buy Multon, Russia...
Indeed, regulators in the free-market-oriented Reagan era seem convinced that bigger is often better. "Reagan's people have allowed the pendulum to swing much, much further in the direction of free and easy merger opportunities," says Robert Pitofsky, dean of the Georgetown University Law Center. "Businessmen see the opportunity to put through deals now that they couldn't have ten years ago." A more zealous Justice Department blocked the merger of two Los Angeles grocery chains during the 1960s on the grounds that the combined firms would claim 5% of the area's food-store business. Today corporate...
...Presbyterian churches and the United Church of Christ, arguing that "our separate organizations . . . present a tragically divided church to a tragically divided world." The result was the Consultation on Church Union, which eventually attracted nine denominations to talks that last year succeeded in forging a theological basis for merger...